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Little Fish A Memoir From a Different Kind of Year Ramsey Beyer Books

Ramsey Beyer is 18 years old and about to leave her small town life to become an independent big city college freshman. And she wants to share her story. In Little Fish, Ramsey share's with her us her first hand thoughts of tackling the new challenges that face her in the big city and growing up away from the friends and family she's known all of her life. Told through Ramsey's journals, collages, lists, and drawings she shares with he her transformation in the time before her move up to the end of her first year of college, in this great autobiographical tale.

Even though some of the drawings were done within the last couple of years, everything was based upon what she wrote in her journal. Ramsey even shares some of the actual pages from her journal, the lists that she created of things that she wanted to do or would miss while moving away from everyone that she knows. This is a great first hand account of what it's like to leave everything that you know and get out into the real world. It's awkward at times, especially as Ramsey navigates dating for the first time, but why wouldn't it be? She captures everything that we as readers have felt at some point or another in our lifetime.

This is such a great way to put together and share a story. Drawings that have an innocence about them, pages from real life journal, type written lists, crumpled pages creating backgrounds...it has it all. There's a lot of visual interests to keep the reader going back for more to see what they missed the first time around, but never feeling overwhelmed by what's there. The one thing that I'm not sure about, and that maybe because it's an egalley, is that there isn't any color anywhere in the book and that's a bit disappointing because just a touch of color in a few places would add some nice contrast. Barring that though, I love looking through this book.

This is a perfect book to give to those heading off to college the first time and for those of us that haven't been in college for a while. It's a nice reminder of what it was like to leave home for that first time. I highly recommend this book and I give it 4 out of 5 stars.


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Little Fish A Memoir From a Different Kind of Year Ramsey Beyer Books Reviews

I am a fan of graphic novels and have read some really good autobiographical ones, so I was looking forward to Ramsey Beyer's debut. Honestly, it fell flat for me.

The premise Ramsey is a small town girl finally heading to the big city, to pursue her dreams of being an artist... and, unsurprisingly, she feels ambivalent about it. We get to go along for the ride as she recounts her experience first hand.

The problem Beyer may know her stuff as an artist, but she's not there yet as a writer. She did too much telling, when she had the perfect format to do more showing. (The occasional list is an interesting touch, but too many ruin the possibility of good story-telling). She repeated information over and over whens she should have been moving the story forward. And whenever she got an interesting narrative arc going, she would abruptly shut it down by inserting a random list. One of the biggest problems Beyer admits to facing in the book is her problem with getting close to people... and that seems to have translated to the written page. How do you write a memoir while holding back? The answer not entirely satisfyingly.

LITTLE FISH was a quick read with interesting moments. But the scattered approach that works for blog posts spread over a year works less well in a book short enough to read in one or two sittings. I personally plan to keep an eye on Beyer... I have a feeling if she keeps writing, she'll be capable of great things. But LITTLE FISH is not there yet.
Very relatable story of a girl leaving small town life to go to college. Great for anyone who wants to remember how that time of their life felt, or for anyone who's about to experience it for the first time. The fun comic format with lots of lists is an added bonus!
A thoroughly refreshing and entertaining read/view. Raw in parts and refined in others. As an artist myself it gently touched my soul and took me back to my own 'little fish' experiences both inside academia and outside in the big wide world. I loved it for exactly what it is and look forward to Ramsey's next 'opening' into her personal adventures.
Ronda Eden
I went into this book biased. I had read a few of Ramsey Beyer's zines and her previous book, Year One, so I knew I was going to love this book just as much as all the other quality works Ramsey has done.

I was sucked in immediately by the art (which is always on point)and the obsessive list making but the part of the book that I liked most had to be seeing the progression of the relationships Ramsey formed her first year away from home. It was honest and heartfelt, from the excitement of making new friends to the confusion of friendship turning into something you weren't looking for, but were happy to find.

I think no matter if you are going to college, just really like auto-bio comics, or just want to read a really rad story about growth and becoming the person you want to be, you are going to love this book.

I don't normally write book reviews (as I am sure is totally apparent)but I think this book is really special.
Ramsey Beyer is 18 years old and about to leave her small town life to become an independent big city college freshman. And she wants to share her story. In Little Fish, Ramsey share's with her us her first hand thoughts of tackling the new challenges that face her in the big city and growing up away from the friends and family she's known all of her life. Told through Ramsey's journals, collages, lists, and drawings she shares with he her transformation in the time before her move up to the end of her first year of college, in this great autobiographical tale.

Even though some of the drawings were done within the last couple of years, everything was based upon what she wrote in her journal. Ramsey even shares some of the actual pages from her journal, the lists that she created of things that she wanted to do or would miss while moving away from everyone that she knows. This is a great first hand account of what it's like to leave everything that you know and get out into the real world. It's awkward at times, especially as Ramsey navigates dating for the first time, but why wouldn't it be? She captures everything that we as readers have felt at some point or another in our lifetime.

This is such a great way to put together and share a story. Drawings that have an innocence about them, pages from real life journal, type written lists, crumpled pages creating backgrounds...it has it all. There's a lot of visual interests to keep the reader going back for more to see what they missed the first time around, but never feeling overwhelmed by what's there. The one thing that I'm not sure about, and that maybe because it's an egalley, is that there isn't any color anywhere in the book and that's a bit disappointing because just a touch of color in a few places would add some nice contrast. Barring that though, I love looking through this book.

This is a perfect book to give to those heading off to college the first time and for those of us that haven't been in college for a while. It's a nice reminder of what it was like to leave home for that first time. I highly recommend this book and I give it 4 out of 5 stars.